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ObamaCare isn’t forever, but what’s next is worse

Obamacare isn’t forever, but Jay Cost to the contrary notwithstanding, the next stop is far more likely to be socialized medicine in the Canadian style, as Charles Krauthammer indicates in the video below, than anything hospitable to free markets or free men.

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Jay Cost cites Federalist 10 in his article. What he doesn’t cite is the 17th Amendment. Madison and his fellow delegates designed a bi-cameral legislature with an upper and lower chamber consisting of a house and senate, to disperse, layer and balance political power and not have too much direct democracy. The idea of popularly elected senators was debated and voted down 10-1. The 17th amendment fractured the constitution’s republican forms of government and violated the Article IV Section 4 Guarantee Clause by effectively enlarging the house of representatives and excising the senate. So long as all 535 members of congress are popularly elected representatives of the people, and there is no senate to temper the will of the people, there will be too much direct democracy and the issues of an unsustainable welfare state will never be addressed.

It sure as hell did. We really are no longer a republic. The last string was when FDR subverted the Supreme Court.

Lincoln destroyed the freely associated United States of America and replaced it with a only through violence may you leave. The 16th and 17th amendments destroyed the power of the states to have any voice in the Federal Government. The states no longer collected the money for the Federal Government and the states no longer controlled the Senate to prevent unconstitutional legislation as well as have a voice in the Supreme Court through the nomination process. The Supreme Court was bullied into acquiescing the demands of the Executive and Legislative branches. Thus, we really are no longer a republic, but are now a democratic mobocracy.

Hypothesis: all of the glorious single-payer health care systems the collectivists point to were a product of the anomalous post-WWII (up to 2008) America-led global economic boom. Western Europe could afford extravagant national health care guarantees because the Americans were paying the defense bill and lending them money cheaply. The post-2008 policy environment of scarcity and restructuring and global economic competition is much less hospitable to universalist social welfare programs.

If you notice how Affirmative-action produces hostile, incompetent presidents with a sense of entitlement and bad attitude just wait until the Institute for Set-Aside Scalpel-jugglers starts passing out medical licenses.

Yo! Tell that m’f’n patient to stop bleeding and dying while I get my snack on….